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Originally Posted by MrsJoseph
 I’m so sick of this argument... PEOPLE STEAL. People steal all the time. They steal books, they steal cars, they steal purses – of course they’re going to steal ebooks! That you would think any differently shows either a willful decision to ignore the obvious or a slightly unbelievable naivety. I  every time I read a publisher/author react with surprise. "OMG, someone stole a copy of my book! Now I have to treat all my loyal and paying customers like thieves in order to punish those people who were never going to give me money in the first place."
I, a legal user and customer, am sick and tired of being treated like a thief simply because thieves exist. |
Are you saying it's acceptable to steal, then? I, as a member of the society at large, would disagree.
I also take umbrage to the implication that I, and all content producers, treat my customers as thieves. The act of applying security to one's goods to prevent theft is NOT treating all customers as thieves.
Security is designed to deter actual thieves. Non-thieves should not be inconvenienced by the existence of security, any more than is necessary to deter actual thieves.
However, I also made clear in my comment that a balance should be struck between applying security and inconveniencing customers (by which, I mean honest customers... not the thieves). Presently, digital security systems do not strike a good balance, and that needs to be fixed. However, "a good balance" doesn't mean "swing the doors open, turn your back and let the consumers do what they will." That particular sales method hasn't been successful for too many content producers, and it isn't going to get any better.
And as a content producer, I'm sick and tired of being called names and stolen from,
especially when I don't even apply DRM to my products, by people who believe I'm an ogre because I understand the need for product security.